STAFF PROFILE
Distinguished Professor Irene Yarovsky
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Email:
irene.yarovsky@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
- Program Leader: Biophysics and Bioengineering
- Research Leader:
Materials Modelling and Simulation group - Postgraduate supervision
Professor Irene Yarovsky on ORCID
Research interests
Theoretical computer simulations of the structure and properties of matter.
Current and recent projects
Life Sciences
Understanding biomolecular interactions of nanoparticles for engineering efficient nanobiomaterials and devices (ARC Discovery project) Theoretical modelling of biomolecular responses to electromagnetic radiation (NHMRC Centre of Excellence: Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research (ACEBR)) Protein self-assembly on surfaces, interfaces and nanoparticles (ARC Discovery project)
Materials
- Theoretical modelling of fundamental molecular mechanisms of biomolecular adsorption to functional surfaces (ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Australian Steel Manufacturing)
- Theoretical modelling study of thin film permeability (ARC Discovery project)
- Environmentally responsive clean coatings (ARC Linkage project)
- New materials for hydrogen storage (ARC Discovery project)
- Modelling novel self-assembling materials
- PhD (Computer Simulation of Hydrophobic solute-ligand interactions), Monash University, 1995
- Master of Science (Applied Mathematics - Distinction), Moscow Institute of Technology, 1985
- Bachelor of Science (Applied Mathematics), Moscow Institute of Technology, 1983
- Lin, Y.,Penna, M.,Spicer, C.,Gelmi, A.,, . (2021). High-Throughput Peptide Derivatization toward Supramolecular Diversification in Microtiter Plates In: ACS Nano, 15, 4034 - 4044
- Williams-Noonan, B.,Todorova, N.,Kulkarni, K.,Aguilar, M.,Yarovsky, I. (2021). An Active Site Inhibitor Induces Conformational Penalties for ACE2 Recognition by the Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125, 2533 - 2550
- Pan, S.,Richardson, J.,Christofferson, A.,Besford, Q.,Zheng, T.,Wood, B.,Duan, X.,Fornerod, M.,McConville, C.,Yarovsky, I.,Guldin, S.,Jiang, L.,Caruso, F. (2021). Fluorinated Metal–Organic Coatings with Selective Wettability In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, 9972 - 9981
- Todorova, N.,Bentvelzen, A.,Yarovsky, I. (2020). Electromagnetic field modulates aggregation propensity of amyloid peptides In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 152, 1 - 10
- Kim, N.,Thomas, M.,Bergholt, M.,Pence, I.,Seong, H.,Charchar, P.,Todorova, N.,Nagelkerke, A.,Belessiotis-Richards, A.,Payne, D.,Gelmi, A.,Yarovsky, I.,Stevens, M. (2020). Surface enhanced Raman scattering artificial nose for high dimensionality fingerprinting In: Nature Communications, 11, 1 - 12
- Penna, M.,Yarovsky, I. (2020). Nanoscale in silico classification of ligand functionalised surfaces for protein adsorption resistance In: Nanoscale, 12, 7240 - 7255
- Zhang, W.,Besford, Q.,Christofferson, A.,Charchar, P.,Richardson, J.,Elbourne, A.,Kempe, K.,Hagemeyer, C.,Field, M.,McConville, C.,Yarovsky, I.,Caruso, F. (2020). Cobalt-Directed Assembly of Antibodies onto Metal-Phenolic Networks for Enhanced Particle Targeting In: Nano Letters, 20, 2660 - 2666
- Zhou, J.,Penna, M.,Ju, Y.,Yarovsky, I., et al, . (2020). Particle engineering enabled by polyphenol-mediated supramolecular networks In: Nature Communications, 11, 1 - 8
- Sarkar, S.,Tran, N.,Rashid, M.,Le, T.,Yarovsky, I.,Conn, C.,Drummond, C. (2019). Toward Cell Membrane Biomimetic Lipidic Cubic Phases: A High-Throughput Exploration of Lipid Compositional Space In: ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2, 182 - 195
- Penna, M.,Ley, K.,Belessiotis-Richards, A.,McLaughlin, S.,Winkler, D.,Yarovsky, I. (2019). Hydration and Dynamics of Ligands Determine the Antifouling Capacity of Functionalized Surfaces In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 30360 - 30372
- ARC Research Hub for Australian Steel Innovation (IH20 Round) (Administered by University of Wollongong). Funded by: ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub via other University Grant 2019 from (2021 to 2026)
- (PEPSA-MATE) Nanopeptides and Nanosaccharides for advanced materials (Administered by UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA). Funded by: Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie RISE from (2020 to 2024)
- Super Resolution Live Imaging Facility (administered by University of Melbourne). Funded by: ARC LIEF via other University from (2020 to 2020)
- Sustaining and strengthening merit-based access at NCI (administered by Australian National University). Funded by: ARC Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) 2019 from (2019 to 2022)
- Atomic Scale Precision Engineering of Cell-Material Interfaces (administered by Monash University). Funded by: ARC Discovery Project via Other University from (2019 to 2021)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions12 PhD Completions and 4 Masters by Research Completions
Computational modelling of materials and theoretical materials design: biomolecular systems (peptides, proteins, drugs, membranes), industrial materials (coatings, minerals, energy materials), nanostructures and bio-nanotechnology applications.